Alexandeb foedyce buchanan



UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ALEXANDER FORDYGE EUonANAN, 0E MONTROSE, NEw YORK.

STAIR AND TABLE OIL-CLOTH.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent N o. 357,950 dated February 15, 1887.

Application filed May 7, 1886. Serial No. 201,504. (Specimens) To all whom it may concern.-

Be it known that I, ALEXANDER FoRDYo BUCHANAN, a citizen of the United States, e siding at Montrose, in the county of Westchester and State of New York, have invented a new and useful article and also a preparatory or intermediate article of manufacture in stair and table oil-cloth, one of which is preparatory, (for which I have obtained no foreign Letters Patent whatever,) of which the following is a specification.

My invention relates, first, to acompleteimproved article of manufacture in stair and table oil-cIoth, in which one or more tint-colors are applied in spots, in combination with printed patterns, after the last daub coat is finished and before the last varnish-coat is applied; second, to an intermediate incomplete, or unfinished article of manufacture in which the goods are dried after the tint-colors have been applied, and in this stage of development or manufacture are left to be sold as articles of merchandise; and my invention consists in the articles of manufacture as hereinafter described, and stated in the several clauses of claim annexed hereto. It is especially adapted to what are known in the trade as brocatels and mosaics.

In making brocatels and mosaics (oil-cloths) it has been the usual or customary method to apply several coats of the materials used to the cloth, called daub-coats, upon which the brocatel or mosaic pattern or design is printed directly and dried, "to be followed, first, by a coat of oil, and then by one of varnish, in that order, (placed directly upon the pattern without any intermediate step or addition,) which are also dried, when the goods areconsidered finished.

In this invention I interpose between the drying of the last daub-coat and the application of coats of oil and varnish, and in intimate connection and combination with the characteristic printed design or pattern,which is also applied, an additional step or operation, consisting in applying, by machinery or by hand, one or more tint-colors, preferably bright and striking,in spots, which are shaded ofi or blended, so as to avoid the appearance of a solid mass of color or the appearance of a regular figure or figures. These tintcolor spots I preferably apply directly to and upon the last daub-coat before the patterns are printed thereon, as the better method; but I am aware that they may be applied simultaneously or after the patterns are printed upon the last daub-coat,and before the last varnishcoat is applied. The effects desired are produced by the combination of the tint color spots with the printed patterns in the intermediate stage between the finishing of the last daub-coat and the application of the varnishcoat. The spots of color so applied show in combination with the principal pattern or desigmare subordinate thereto, and do not conflict therewith, but, on the contrary, have the effect of ornamenting, brightening, and enlivening the appearance of the finished goods, since they are so applied as not to conflict therewith, but are shaded or blended so as to produce tinting effects upon parts of the regular pattern or design and are subordinated thereto. These spots of color may be applied in water-colors or in oil-colors, and their ap plication is to be followed by drying.

At the stage or step of the process or proceeding wherein the tintcolor spots have been applied directly to and upon the last daubcoat and dried I contemplate the temporary arrest or stoppage of further immediate steps and making an article of merchandise of the product at and iii that stage upon which other manufacturers may desire to place or print their own particular designs, to be finished thereafter in the usual way, as if there had been no such arrest of proceedings.

I prefer to apply the spots of color by a separate and independent operation directly upon the daub-coat, drying the same before proceeding with the next step or operation; but

I do not desire to limit my invention to that method and to the product of that method of procedure, as I am aware that the final or principal pattern may be printed upon or over the last daub-coat simultaneously, or while the color-spots are still wet or undried, and as I am also aware that the tint-color spots may be applied after the printed pattern has bee printed and dried.

I usually blend or shade the spots of color by rubbing the same while still wet or undried, as this is the simplest and easiest way; but the blending or shading effect may be produced in other well-known ways, some of which are much more expensive,and therefore open to objection.

The complete article is completed by applying a coat of varnish over the combined tintcolor spots and printed patterns (brocatels or mosaics) in the usual way, or in any ordinary or known way, with or without an antecedent coat of oil.

In this application I do not claim the invention herein shown in so far as it relates to the processes or to the improvement in the art, as I have made another application, No. 218,305, filed November 8, 1886, in which I have made claim for the improvement in the art.

What I claim as my invention is- 1. The improved article of manufacture, consisting of oil-cloth having spots of tint'eolor,

one or more, in combination with a printed 

